Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: DH

In ca.521,
the Persian king Darius
I the Great ordered that a new alphabet, the Aryan
script, was to be developed. This was used for a small corpus of inscriptions,
known as the Achaemenid
Royal Inscriptions. An overview of all inscriptions can be found here.

King Darius says: This is the kingdom which I hold, from the Sacae
who are beyond Sogdia to Nubia, and from Sind to Lydia
- [this is] what Ahuramazda,
the greatest of gods, bestowed upon me. May Ahuramazda protect me and my
royal house!